The original meaning of Confucius s loss of food and food, how to understand Confucius s various no

Loss: Cooking raw and cooked is not appropriate, and not eating is not eating.

From "Confucius's Family Language: In Er":

Confucius was inferior to Chen and Cai, and the servants did not eat for seven days. Zigong surrounded the thieves with all the goods he had, and told the savages that he would get a stone of rice. Yan Hui and Zhong You cooked under the bad house, and there was Ai Mo who fell into the rice, and Yan Hui took it and ate it.

Zigong saw it from the well, displeased, thought that it was stealing food, and asked Confucius: "The benevolent and the poor are poor, so what about changing the moderation?" Confucius said:

What is the meaning of benevolence? Zigong said: "If you go back, won't you change the festival?"

Zi said: "Yes." Zigong told Confucius with what he had eaten, and Zi said:

I believe that it will be benevolent for a long time. Although you have clouds, you are suspicious, or there must be a reason? Stop, I will ask.

Recall Yan Hui said: "In the past, I dreamed of my ancestors, how could I enlighten me." When the child cooks and eats, I will enter.

He said: "If you want to put it in the middle of the meal, you will be unclean; It would be a pity to abandon it. Eat it when you return it, and you can't sacrifice it.

Confucius said, "Yes! I eat it too.

Yan came back. Confucius said to the second and third sons: "My letter is returned, not today."

The second and third sons were thus subordinated.

Confucius was trapped between Chen and Cai, and those who followed him had nothing to eat for 7 days. Zigong used the goods he was carrying, secretly climbed over the wall, exchanged with the countrymen, and got a stone of rice. The rice that Yan Hui and Zhong You cooked in the broken house had black dust falling into the food, and Yan Hui took it and ate it.

When Zigong saw it from the patio, he was very unhappy, thinking that Yan Hui was stealing food, so he went in and asked Confucius: "Will a benevolent, righteous and honest person change his temperament when he suffers from poverty?" Confucius said

If you change your discipline, can you still call it benevolent, righteous and honest? Zigong said: "Like Yan Hui, won't he change his temperament?"

Confucius said, "It is so. Zigong told Confucius about Yan Hui's food.

Confucius said: "I have believed that Yan Hui was a benevolent man for a long time. Even if you say that, you don't doubt him because of this, maybe there is a reason why he did it, right?

Don't go yet, I'll ask him. Confucius summoned Yan and asked, "I dreamed of my ancestors, do I want to bless me with some revelation?"

You have cooked the rice and brought it, I want to sacrifice it to my ancestors. Yan Hui replied: "There was black dust falling on the rice just now, I think I don't care about it, the rice is not clean; It would be a shame to want to throw it away.

I ate it, and I couldn't sacrifice it with the food. Confucius said, "That's it!

I'll eat it too. (It will not be used for sacrifice.) Yan came out.

Confucius turned back to the others and said, "I believe in Yan Hui, not just today. As a result, others were convinced by Yan Hui's quality.

Confucius wrote in the Analects"There are more than a dozen "no food" in the Tenth "Township Party", which expresses his views on dietary health, dietary hygiene, and dietary etiquette. From today's point of view, I have to admire his old man's understanding of China's national conditions, people's feelings, and physical conditions (the particularity of the human body). For example, he said "don't eat from time to time" immediately after "don't eat", which makes a lot of sense when you think about it.

"Don't eat from time to time" is "time to eat". Generally speaking, in a person's life, there should be a food list suitable for their own growth and development and metabolism at different times. All in all, meals should be arranged according to the season throughout the year.

In short, within a month, or a day, eat and drink at the right time. At the end of the day, eating at the right time requires people to eat according to the rhythm of their body's biological clock.

In fact, as early as the Zhou Dynasty more than 2,000 years ago, there was a "four-season food list". The diet has four distinct seasons, and that's because animals have different meat quality at different growth periods. The so-called "small manhe crooked (mussel) thin lame, summer solstice crucian carp empty shell, Dragon Boat Festival crab empty shelf", is talking about untimely food.

It is also like the sea and river fresh, before the Qingming Dynasty, the swordfish is soft and soft, and the river mussel is pulpy; summer carp and shrimp; Autumn sea bass frost crab is because the fish and shrimp at this time are fat and delicious, and the nutrients are sufficient.

Plant-based raw materials, those who eat their stems and leaves, should take the least lignin content. Those who choose to eat their rhizomes should eat when their starch content is sufficient and they are easy to saccharify. Those who choose to eat its flowers should be in bud when they are ready to be released.

Those who choose to eat their fruits should not eat unripe fruits. It is important to know that "radish water spinach in May, leeks and old donkey grass in June" is not just a casual talk.